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In 2015 DN Galan will be the last Diamond League meeting before the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, which will mean that a host of stars, in peak form for the year’s biggest event, will compete in Stockholm as their final preparation. World Indoor long jump bronze medallist, Michel Tornéus, was third at DN Galan 2014 with a jump of 8.03m and he has every expectation to jump even further when the event returns to the programme in July next year.
A women’s distance event will also feature in the form of 3000m or 5000m. The final decision has yet to be made. Meraf Bahta from the Hälle IF club on Sweden’s west coat is the reigning European Champion and in 2014 became the first Swede under 15 minutes for 5000m when she set a new Swedish record of 14:59.49. Whichever distance is decided there’s a good chance for another Swedish record.
Men’s high jump – a quality event
The men’s high jump became a constant highlight of the 2014 Diamond League with a series of results over 2.40m by a range of top jumpers. The highest was Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim who cleared 2.43 at the Diamond League Final in Brussels and became the second highest of all time behind World Record holder, Javier Sotomayor (2.45m).
Maybe Barshim, or 2.42m Ukrainian, Bohdan Bondarenko, can threaten Patrik Sjöberg’s stadium record which will have lasted 28 years next year.
Jonas Hedman
Photo: Michel Tornéus, Hammarby IF. Photo: Deca Text&Bild
DN Galan’s Diamond League events 2015
Men: 200 m, 400 m, 1500 m, 3000 m steeplechase, 110 m hurdles, high jump, long jump and discus.
Women: 100 m, 800 m, 3000/5000 m, 400 m hurdles, polevault, triple jump, shot put and javlin throw.
Diamond League 2015
Each discipline will be staged seven times in the course of the season. The overall winners will be decided at the two finals in Zurich and Brussels on 3rd and 11th September 2015 respectively (the event programme is split between the two competitions).
15 May Doha, QAT
17 May Shanghai, CHN
30 May Eugene, OR
4 June Rome, ITA
7 June Birmingham, GBR
11 June Oslo, NOR
13 June New York, NY
4 July Paris, FRA
9 July Lausanne, SUI
17 July i Monaco, MON
24-25 July London, GBR
30 July Stockholm
3 Sept Zürich, SUI
11 Sept Brussels, BEL